Featured topics include digital assets and capital market applications, privacy, governance, and more.

Ecosystem Updates

Key Tezos entities and organizations will provide roadmaps and updates on their work.

Developer Workshops

Learn more about new high level programming languages, dev tools and applications and join us for interactive demos.

About the Event

Hosted By TQ Tezos, the Inaugural TQuorum Global Summit Will Feature:

The TQuorum: Global Summit is the capstone event in the TQuorum conference series. Featuring thought leaders and experts on digital assets and capital markets, the proof of stake ecosystem, blockchain development, and more, this multi-day conference has presentations and workshops for all levels of experience.

Featuring:

Focused on the proof of stake ecosystem, Incentivize features panels and workshops with industry leaders discussing how proof of stake networks evolve, the economics of staking, and the growing proof of stake business opportunities. Incentivize is co-hosted by the Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA)﻿ on Day 2 of the Summit.

Digitize is a primer on all things digital assets. The event covers the latest on tokenizing assets, STOs, and how blockchain-powered instruments are affecting the financial landscape. Digitize will feature three panel discussions on Day 3 of the Summit.

the schedule

(tentative)

DAY 1

sunday, september 29th

9:00 AM

Global Leadership Summit

Over 40 Tezos community leaders from around the world are coming together for the Global Leadership Summit to share best-practices on running effective Meetup groups, keeping communities engaged, and how to help the community grow. Please note that this is an invitation-only event.

6:30 PM

welcome PARTY

Join us for a welcome reception filled with food, drinks, and fun!

DAY 2

monday, september 30th

9:00 AM

CHECK-IN & BREAKFAST

Check-in opens at 50 Varick Street at 9:00 AM. Grab your nametag and head upstairs for some breakfast to get to ready for the day of events!

9:45 AM

Welcome Address

Ryan Jesperson, Tezos Foundation

9:55 AM

Roadmap presentation from nomadic labs

Benjamin Canou, CTO of Nomadic Labs, presents the current state of the Tezos protocol and highlights some of the upcoming milestones core developers are working towards.

Featuring:

- Benjamin Canou, Nomadic Labs

10:10 AM

ROADMAP PRESENTATION FROM cryptium Labs

Adrian Brink, Co-Founder of Cryptium Labs walks us through their roadmap for research and development.

Featuring:

- Adrian Brink, Cryptium

10:20 AM

Checker: algorithmic collateralization on Tezos

Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman describes his latest project, Checker, “a software project implementing financial logic designed to help stabilize the value of a cryptographic coin with respect to an externally provided index.” Learn about Checker's development, what Arthur aims to accomplish, and why he believes this will be an important ingredient in the Tezos ecosystem.

Featuring:

- Arthur Breitman

11:00 AM

Tezos-flavored Truffle: Baking a more delicious development experience

G. Nicholas D’Andrea and Cruz Molina from Trufflesuite present the work their team has been doing to build fundamental tools for blockchain development, including their upcoming Tezos integration.

Featuring:

- G. Nicholas D'Andrea, Trufflesuite

- Cruz Molina, Trufflesuite

11:45 AM

TECHNICAL DEMOS

Join us in the demo room for a series of technical workshops from Tezos projects.

Featuring:

- Alessandro de Carli, Papers & Airgap

- Alexander Eichhorn, Blockwatch/Kid Tsunami

- Vishakh, Cryptonomic

- Juraj Selep, simplestaking.com

12:15 PM

Lunch Break

Grab your lunch & head up to the roof for a quick break.

1:15 PM

Technical Demos

Join us in the demo room for a series of technical workshops from Tezos projects.

Featuring:

- Istvan Deak, Stove Labs

- Chris Goes, Cryptium Labs & Tendermint/Cosmos

- Bernd Oostrum, Tezsure

- Matej Sima, Stove Labs

2:00 PM

INCENTIVIZE: Exploring the Legal and Regulatory Implications of Interacting with Proof of Stake Networks

Moderated by Katherine Wu, this panel focuses on the current regulatory landscape and some of the most pressing legal questions facing the blockchain industry, including the unique challenges presented by proof of stake networks.

Featuring:

- Lewis Cohen, DLX Law

- Lorien Gabel, Figment Networks

- Josh Garcia, Blakemore Fallon

- Karen Ubell, Cooley LLP

- Moderated by: Katherine Wu, Notation Capital

2:45 PM

incentivize: governance & user participation

This panel discussion will dive into blockchain governance and take a closer look at how proof of stake networks incentivize user participation.

Featuring:

- Jacob Arluck, TQ Tezos

- Adrian Brink, Cryptium Labs

- Emin Gun Sirer, Ava Labs

- Lane Rettig, Spacemesh

- Moderated by: Brady Dale, CoinDesk

3:30 PM

INCENTIVIZE: how to stake safely

Proof of stake protocols incentivize individuals and organizations with large quantities of tokens to store them and engage with their networks in unique ways. This panel of staking and custodial specialists discusses institutional-grade best practices for storing and securing tokens.

Featuring:

- Aaron Henshaw, Bison Trails

- Brandon Kase, o(1) Labs

- Konstantin Richter, Blockdaemon

- Luke Youngblood, Blockscale

- Moderated by: Mike Reinhart, Obsidian Systems

4:15 PM

Adjourn

6:30 PM

Cryptomondays after party featuring Arthur breitman

Join Arthur Breitman with Lou Kerner from CryptoOracle for a Fireside Chat that includes a broad discussion of how the technology underlying Tezos is evolving and why having a monetary premium matters. They'll also delve in to Arthur's latest Tezos project, Checker, which aims to provide financial logic designed to help stabilize the value of a tokens with respect to an externally provided index.

Digital securities, like security tokens or other digital assets, are sophisticated financial instruments that come with the challenges of traditional finance and the technology stack. Learn about the current state of the technical infrastructure for digital securities and what the ecosystem needs to continue growing.

Featuring:

- G. Daniel Doney, Securrency

- Bilal El Alamy, Equisafe

- Ryan Lackey, Tezos Foundation

- Dave Hendricks, Vertalo

- Moderated by: Christine Kim, CoinDesk

3:30 PM

Digitize: DeFi meets CeFi - Innovative Financial Instruments

Blockchain-based digital assets have unlocked numerous opportunities in the world of finance, as evident by the growing decentralized finance movement. Learn what these new, innovative financial instruments are and how they’re shaking up the world of traditional finance.

Featuring:

- Andrew Beal, Ernst & Young LLP

- Kristin Boggiano, AlphaPoint

- Mason Borda, TokenSoft

- Allison Lu, UMA

- Aaron Travis, Tokenvault

- Moderated by: David Morris, FortuneMagazine

4:15 PM

adjourn

6:30 PM

TQUorum official after party @ CHEFS CLUB NYC

Join us to celebrate the closing of the inaugural TQuorum Global Summit at the Chef's Club NYC (275 Mulberry Street). Food & drinks will be available. Click here to RSVP.